A Beautiful skeleton Mechanical Watch with a handmade Genuine leather strap, and made up with Hand-sewn Saddle Stitch
Leather Craft - Handmade Leather With Fine Art Hand Engraving...Original Drawing
Monday, 30 May 2011
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Pyrography 烙畫
Known in Victorian times as Pokerwork (because a red hot poker was used!) Pyrography is the art or craft of decorating wood or leather with heated tools (Engraving).
A BRIEF HISTORY OF PYROGRAPHY
Writing with Fire
Pyrography is derived from the Greek words pur (meaning fire) and graphos (meaning writing). People have probably "written with fire" since fire was discovered. Cavemen may well have used charred sticks to draw on the walls of their caves! However no examples survive for us to see. In early times pyrography, as today, was principally used for the decoration of artifacts, examples of which are likely to have been lost, principally as it was classified as a folk art rather than paintings and sculptures. Dried gourds used as domestic vessels are one of the most widespread artefacts that are decorated with pyrographic techniques and this spreads the net of possible areas where it would have been common practice to all tropical and sub-tropical and many temperate parts of the world.
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
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